Big Chief Studios James Bond Series

[Tom Day]

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I hate it. It doesn't feel like a Bond film it feels like a bad British version of Miami Vice.

 

[Preshea]

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License to kill is pretty bland. No memorable moments and actually feels campier thank Never say never again.

Nothing tops the train fight in From Russia with love and the staircase fight in Casino royal both feel extremely real and brutal every time.

 

[Freakazoid!]

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Stepping in to stop this blasphemy streak. Licence to Kill rocks. That scene of Bond blending in among the casino's waiter staff more naturally than any previous Bond, Sanchez, the story structure, Q, Pam, the whole truck chase, Del Toro (Honeymoooon!), shark scene, best underwater scene, etc.

 

[roy neary]

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I hate it. It doesn't feel like a Bond film it feels like a bad British version of Miami Vice.

That is the most accurate description of LTK ever.

 

[Sardo Numspa]

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I enjoy License to Kill. Not in the top Bond films list for sure, but other than Dalton's poofy hair, the movie is entertaining. What I love about it, is that Bond utterly destroys Sanchez's organization. Completely. Every aspect of it.

 

[Preshea]

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Stepping in to stop this blasphemy streak. Licence to Kill rocks. That scene of Bond blending in among the casino's waiter staff more naturally than any previous Bond, Sanchez, the story structure, Q, Pam, the whole truck chase, Del Toro (Honeymoooon!), shark scene, best underwater scene, etc.

That's where the bad british Miami Vice came in. Lol

 

[shells075]

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Who could forget this scene from LTK

 

[Wor-Gar]

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Who could forget this scene from LTK

1974 SFX in a 1989 movie.

The hands reaching from behind to feel the fake face cracks me up.

 

[TheMajor]

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Dalton could have been a fantastic Bond and I loved the edge he brought to it, but his movies were just way too grim and serious and lacking in any kind of fun.

I never understand why people say this. 7 films of Moore, 4 of Brosnan and most of the Connery era, and that still isn't enough. Not every Bond has to be a campy slice of escapism. I prefer The Living Daylights for being a spy thriller, but Licence To Kill follows closely behind as my 2nd favourite Bond film.

 

[forestlite]

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I never understand why people say this. 7 films of Moore, 4 of Brosnan and most of the Connery era, and that still isn't enough. Not every Bond has to be a campy slice of escapism. I prefer The Living Daylights for being a spy thriller, but Licence To Kill follows closely behind as my 2nd favourite Bond film.

Agreed! Dalton's two films tops any of the Moore films by a mile for me (although I do throughly enjoy TSWLM & FYEO).

 

[Wor-Gar]

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I never understand why people say this.

I prefer The Living Daylights for being a spy thriller...

From a pure filmmaking standpoint, TLD is very poorly made. Terrible TV lighting on interiors. Sluggish pace. Horribly slow score just drags any sense of urgency down to a crawl. Bad dialogue in many places, or perhaps acting, hard to tell. In fact, I just started to watch it last night because of this thread and couldn't get through it.

The Pretenders song (Where has everybody gone) is the best part and a great motif. But then they chose the insipid A-ha song over it.

 

[gido]

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When we'll see full second Bond figure at least?I believe now is time to show more about Mr.Moore sculpt.

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[Drake]

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Agreed! Dalton's two films tops any of the Moore films by a mile for me (although I do throughly enjoy TSWLM & FYEO).

Same. Maybe we should start a club.

Dalton is also much closer to the Bond of Fleming's books, so that was always another big tick for me.

 

[TheMajor]

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From a pure filmmaking standpoint, TLD is very poorly made. Terrible TV lighting on interiors. Sluggish pace. Horribly slow score just drags any sense of urgency down to a crawl. Bad dialogue in many places, or perhaps acting, hard to tell. In fact, I just started to watch it last night because of this thread and couldn't get through it.

The Pretenders song (Where has everybody gone) is the best part and a great motif. But then they chose the insipid A-ha song over it.

Other than the slow pace (it is a classy complex cold war thriller first, and action film second), I don't think it suffers with those problems. It is my favourite Bond film, and i'll defend it to the hilt.

 

[ChigsHakko]

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Other than the slow pace (it is a classy complex cold war thriller first, and action film second), I don't think it suffers with those problems. It is my favourite Bond film, and i'll defend it to the hilt.

I'm on a Bond binge at the moment and have got as far as The Living Daylights and I think it may be my favourite too. Dalton is such a great and under rated Bond. He just looks the part.

 

[Wor-Gar]

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. It is my favourite Bond film, and i'll defend it to the hilt.

I respect that. Just giving my subjective opinion. It's all Bond so its all good. Just to varying degrees.

I remember seeing Flash Gordon when I was a kid and saying that Robin Hood guy would make a great Bond. 6 years later it came true. I liked him, but never felt the movies around him were good enough.

 

[Tom Day]

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From a pure filmmaking standpoint, TLD is very poorly made. Terrible TV lighting on interiors. Sluggish pace. Horribly slow score just drags any sense of urgency down to a crawl. Bad dialogue in many places, or perhaps acting, hard to tell. In fact, I just started to watch it last night because of this thread and couldn't get through it.

The Pretenders song (Where has everybody gone) is the best part and a great motif. But then they chose the insipid A-ha song over it.

I completely agree about the lighting! So much of it looks rubbish. I think it worked better at the time because it was something different after so many years of grandfatherly, twinkling Roger Moore, who was fun but couldn't even walk in a manly way. It's dated badly. The one worthwhile moment of that whole film was the fight on the net hanging off the back of the Soviet plane. If you can close your eyes for the close ups filmed in a studio.

The last time I watched it, it came across as a kind of primitive dry run for Goldeneye.

Edit - just read all the positive comments about it. Apologies to anyone who loves it, I hope I didn't come across as aggressive about my view of it.

 

[Johnny Utah]

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Paid off Bond today on Sean Connery's birthday!

 

[Wor-Gar]

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Paid off Bond today on Sean Connery's birthday!

His birthday is today?

Well Happy Birthday Sean Connery!

 

[gido]

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So-next month-in few weeks, GF figures should be ready to ship to us, right?

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